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"This one was #12, so I wasn't going to get it, but I was feeling lucky so I went ahead and got it," Burel said.
Burel's break from superstition turned out to be profitable -- he won the top prize on the $10,000 Crossword ticket.
"I knew immediately after scratching it that the ticket was a winner," Burel said. "I started counting words and when I got to 11, I got excited. Then there were 12, and finally 13, and I started to get all jittery."
Burel, a truck driver, said the money will go toward buying his own semi so he can go into business for himself.